Author: Bert Seifriz
Date: 02:42:46 06/22/98
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On June 21, 1998 at 15:54:47, Moritz Berger wrote: >On June 21, 1998 at 14:58:37, Bert Seifriz wrote: > >>On June 21, 1998 at 14:29:44, Bert Seifriz wrote: >> >>>On June 20, 1998 at 15:48:02, Moritz Berger wrote: >>> >>>>Apparently (there's no result on the official web site yet) Fritz lost the 1st >>>>game with white against Anand. The 2nd game was drawn. Time control was game/25. >>>> >>>>Anand was completely in charge of the board all the time, Fritz had no change >>>>whatsoever. The draw in the 2nd game has to be considered a good result for >>>>Fritz. >>>> >>>>For more details see >>>>http://194.109.72.230/chessclassic/ >>>> >>>>Moritz >>> >>>But the official page you mention here (situated in Holland) had >>>already stated before the match >>>that Fritz 5 was the reigning world champion. On the same >>>page was the official logo of Chessbase. >>>Bert/gambitsoft.com > >What's wrong with that? Fritz is the current world champion by the Hongkong >match from 1995 where it finished ahead of Deep Thought II. It is not the >current ICCA world micro champion (commercial or amateur), but that's another >title. It's like boxing or wrestling, there's several titles to be had. Fritz >happens to be the heavy weight champion. I know that there are different titles. 1995 looks a bit old to me! > >ChessBase are sponsoring the Frankfurt chess event (the strongest action chess >tournament in history, cat. XXII), so what's wrong with having their logo >displayed (among 10 or so other sponsors) on that site??? There is nothing wrong with that. I only see a tendency to have many world champs. See discussion a week ago! >>Just found another interesting detail around that match. Siemens >>writes in German: >> >> Das Geheimnis guter Schachprogramme liegt nicht – wie man vermuten >> könnte – in der künstlichen Intelligenz, sondern vielmehr in der >> leistungstarken Hardware. Die Spielstärke von Fritz wird durch drei >> Faktoren wesentlich bestimmt: Prozessorleistung, Hauptspeicher und >> Festplatte... >> >>which means in short, that the secret of a good chess program is not >>artificial intelligence, but strong hardware, namely a good processor, >>much memory and a fast harddisk. > >Siemens spends a lot of money on that event and want something back. They >advertise their Primergy server on which Fritz runs. Why do you believe that a >sponsor wouldn't have any right to do so ??? They can write what they want. Nevertheless I find it more than funny to say, all is hardware, software does not mean much. All you have to do is buy a fast machine! >>This is no joke, folks! And the Siemens page is heavily relying >>on Chessbase information, maybe it was written by ChessBase >>anyway. (I would not dare to write this openly in this forum even if I would >>believe it!!) >>Bert / gambitsoft.com > > >Instead of pretending to be in the AI business, they confess their credo 'speed >wins'. They haven't had exactly a bad track record with this philosophy ... I do not know that Siemens is famous for speedy machines! >Why do you think Fritz won the Ordix open????? Because it plays bad chess ???? > No, because they had a fast harddisk, much memory, and a good processor, of course!! This is it what you defend. See above. Bert
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